Quotes from William Feather

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

I have won every argument I ever had with myself.

Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.

Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.

Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work

If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers

Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.

Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.

Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.